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She Said It Best: Dolly Parton - Wit & Wisdom to Color & Display (Paperback): Kimma Parish She Said It Best: Dolly Parton - Wit & Wisdom to Color & Display (Paperback)
Kimma Parish
R442 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R24 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dolly Parton is a country music legend, but also one of America's most beloved celebrities. Her warmth, spirit, and no-nonsense advice is embraced by millions of people who love her positive personality and encouraging attitude. In this colouring book, Dolly's inspiring words will be paired with equally inspiring designs to colour. Sample quotations include: "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!" This clever and lovely colouring book series combines quotations from beloved wise women with beautiful black- and-white illustrations. In an attractive paperback format with foil embellishments, these books stand on their own as lovely art objects and impressive gifts.

Mother Winter - A Memoir (Paperback): Sophia Shalmiyev Mother Winter - A Memoir (Paperback)
Sophia Shalmiyev
R425 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hartley Coleridge - A Reassessment of His Life and Work (Hardcover): A Keanie Hartley Coleridge - A Reassessment of His Life and Work (Hardcover)
A Keanie
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first modern study of Hartley Coleridge, showing that he deserves our attention not as the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but as a literary presence in his own right.

Genius and Anxiety - How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 (Paperback): Norman Lebrecht Genius and Anxiety - How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 (Paperback)
Norman Lebrecht 1
R375 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R32 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. These visionaries all have something in common - their Jewish origins and a gift for thinking outside the box. In 1847 the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world's population, and yet they saw what others could not. How?

Florida Literary Luminaries - Writing in Paradise (Hardcover): James C. Clark Florida Literary Luminaries - Writing in Paradise (Hardcover)
James C. Clark
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Mind Behind the Rings (Paperback): Mark Horne J. R. R. Tolkien - The Mind Behind the Rings (Paperback)
Mark Horne
R550 R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Save R49 (9%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the Rings, you'll get a never-before-seen look at the man, the artist, and the believer behind some of the world's most beloved stories. Join bestselling author Mark Horne as he explores lasting impact of the kind of creative freedom that can only come from faith and struggle. Raised in South Africa and Great Britain, young Tolkien led a life filled with uncertainty, instability, and loss. As he grew older, however, the faith that his mother instilled in him continued as an intrinsic contribution to his creative imagination and his everyday life. J. R. R. Tolkien explores: The literary giant's childhood, coming-of-age stories, and the countless hurdles he faced What inspired and influenced The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Tolkien's service in the war The ways that Tolkien's faith influenced his work Previously published as a volume in the Christian Encounters series, this renewed edition of J. R. R. Tolkien now includes updated information about TV series and films inspired by Tolkien's literary creations as well as a discussion guide designed to keep the conversation going.

The Genius Of Judy - How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood For All Of Us (Hardcover): Rachelle Bergstein The Genius Of Judy - How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood For All Of Us (Hardcover)
Rachelle Bergstein
R721 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. to Blubber.

Everyone knows Judy Blume.

Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn to them? And why are we still talking about them now in the 21st century?

In The Genius of Judy, her remarkable story is revealed as never before, beginning with her as a mother of two searching for purpose outside of her home in 1960s suburban New Jersey. The books she wrote starred regular children with genuine thoughts and problems. But behind those deceptively simple tales, Blume explored the pillars of the growing women’s rights movement, in which girls and women were entitled to careers, bodily autonomy, fulfilling relationships, and even sexual pleasure. Blume wasn’t trying to be a revolutionary—she just wanted to tell honest stories—but in doing so, she created a cohesive, culture-altering vision of modern adolescence.

Blume’s bravery provoked backlash, making her the country’s most-banned author in the mid-1980s. Thankfully, her works withstood those culture wars and it’s no coincidence that Blume has resurfaced as a cultural touchstone now. Young girls are still cat-called, sex education curricula are getting dismissed as pornography, and entire shelves of libraries are being banned. As we face these challenges, it’s only natural we look to Blume, the grand dame of so-called dirty books. This is the story of how a housewife became a groundbreaking artist, and how generations of empowered fans are her legacy, today more than ever.

Intimacy and Distance - Conflicting Cultures in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover): Philippa Lewis Intimacy and Distance - Conflicting Cultures in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
Philippa Lewis
R2,587 Discovery Miles 25 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol I (Hardcover): Edmund Gosse The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol I (Hardcover)
Edmund Gosse
R1,283 R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Save R209 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Keelie Hawk - Poems in Scots (Paperback): Kathleen Jamie The Keelie Hawk - Poems in Scots (Paperback)
Kathleen Jamie
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Keelie Hawk is a landmark collection from Kathleen Jamie, the current Makar (National Poet) of Scotland. For the first time, Kathleen Jamie has brought her astonishing lyric talent to the language of her homeland, with outstanding results. The Keelie Hawk is a deeply resonant collection written in Scots, with each poem accompanied by a translation into English. Its publication is a significant event in Scottish literature, not only a reclaiming by one of our finest poets of the mouth-music of literary Scots, but a furthering of that language: ‘by making poems, a language develops’, Jamie observes in a fascinating afterword.

The Life of Ezra Pound (Hardcover): Noel Stock The Life of Ezra Pound (Hardcover)
Noel Stock
R5,870 Discovery Miles 58 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1970, this is a detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of the modern movement, a friend and helper of Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, Hemingway, an early supporter of Lawrence and Frost. As a critic of modern society his far-reaching and controversial theories on politics, economics and religion led him to broadcast over Rome Radio during the Second World War, after which he was indicted for treason but declared insane by an American court. He then spent more than twelve years in St Elizabeth 's Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington, D.C. In 1958 the changes against him were dropped and he returned to Italy where he had lived between 1924 and 1945.

Stephen King - A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences (Hardcover): Bev Vincent Stephen King - A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences (Hardcover)
Bev Vincent
R902 R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Save R332 (37%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Glimpses of Greatness - Autobiography of Philip Guy Rochford, Hbm (Hardcover): Philip Guy Rochford Glimpses of Greatness - Autobiography of Philip Guy Rochford, Hbm (Hardcover)
Philip Guy Rochford
R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In his motivational autobiography Glimpses of Greatness, Philip Guy Rochford shares the milestones of his life that mark not only his spiritual journey, but also his very successful professional career as a financier.

Rochford was born in 1933 in Port of Spain, Trinidad-arriving into the world with a clean slate of consciousness. Raised in a strict Catholic household by a single mother, Rochford received his first lessons in applied economics as he and his family dealt with the financial ripples of World War II. With an honest, conversational style, Rochford details his intriguing life story beginning with his school years when he was encouraged to work in a local pharmacy to his education in several countries to the challenges-political, professional, and personal-that he faced on a daily basis as he enjoyed a fruitful career as an economist and chartered secretary, banker, and accountant. By including questions and answer segments at the end of each chapter, Rochford allows for deeper explanations, insight, and elaboration into his life experiences and many professional accomplishments.

Rochford combines anecdotes, poetry, and letters with a compelling life story that will surely motivate others to let their brilliance shine through, no matter what their barriers.

Poetry of a Conscious Mind - Poems of Love, Joy, Honesty, & Much More (Hardcover): Earnest Hammond Poetry of a Conscious Mind - Poems of Love, Joy, Honesty, & Much More (Hardcover)
Earnest Hammond
R994 R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Save R154 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
James Weldon Johnson - Songwriter (Hardcover, 1st): Don Cusic James Weldon Johnson - Songwriter (Hardcover, 1st)
Don Cusic
R747 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As a songwriter, James Weldon Johnson is best known for "Life Every Voice," which he wrote with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. However, during the early 1900s he was part of one of the most popular and successful songwriting teams in America. Johnson, along with his brother, Rosamond, and Bob Cole wrote hit songs for musicals during the ragtime era, 1895-1910. Later, he became one of the most prominent African-Americans in the United States before World War II. He was a diplomat, the author of a novel (The Autobiography of a Colored Man), poet ("God's Trombones"), Civil Rights leader (the first black Executive Secretary of the NAACP), an active member of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s and a distinguished Professor at Fisk University. Most of James Weldon Johnson's songs have not been heard for over a hundred years because he wrote during the era of sheet music. Now, for the first time, here is a collection of Johnson's lyrics and an extended biographical essay on him as a songwriter. Don Cusic is Professor of Music Business at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee and the author of 25 books. Cusic and Mike Curb produced a double album containing 30 of James Weldon Johnson's songs, recorded by Melinda Doolittle, for Curb Records.

A Questing Life - The Search for Meaning (Hardcover): Charles I Campbell A Questing Life - The Search for Meaning (Hardcover)
Charles I Campbell
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Charles Campbell was born in Sheridan, Wyoming in 1923. He studied engineering in Caltech and Purdue and earned a degree in Architecture in Columbia University in 1975. He shares his insights into some of the major developments and issues of the 20th century: the atomic bomb and peacetime control of atomic energy, national concern over the biological effects of atomic radiation, and efforts to penetrate Soviet nuclear development. He was involved in international cooperation on storage and retrieval of scientific information, and biomedical research in Rockefeller University and the New York Heart Association. His quest led to psychiatry, the Gurdjieff Work, Sufism, energetic healing, Shamanism and astrology. He gives vignettes of 35 Nobel Laureates, he earned a degree, he has known and tells about his avocations-architecture, telescope-making, printing, calligraphy and typography, and computers. He became a Dervish in Iran in 1968. After retirement, he opened a bookstore in New York specializing in Islam and the Middle East. In 2006 he graduated from the Fire and Wind Institute of Energetic Science and Heart Centered Healing and is a certified Energetic Healer and Shaman. He lives in Tappan, NY, with his wife, Vivian Davis Campbell, whose memoir, ""Love Hoped For"" was published by iUniverse.

Ingrid Jonker - A Poet's Life (Paperback): Petrovna Metelerkamp Ingrid Jonker - A Poet's Life (Paperback)
Petrovna Metelerkamp
R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

The first comprehensive biography of this iconic artist to appear in English. Richly illustrated with 160 photographs. Since her dramatic death at the age of 31 the name Ingrid Jonker has been linked to that of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath - legends who died young. In her first biography to appear in English, the frail figure of Jonker as a child, a young poet, daughter of a prominent politician, wife, mother, mistress of a famous author, lover and rebel is portrayed against the backdrop of revolt against South Africa's policies of censorship and apartheid.

In Every Corner Sing - A Poet's Corner collection (Hardcover): Malcolm Guite In Every Corner Sing - A Poet's Corner collection (Hardcover)
Malcolm Guite
R594 R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Succeeding Ronald Blythe's Word From Wormingford, one of the most beloved columns in contemporary journalism, was always going to be a formidable challenge for any writer. Yet the new occupier of the back page slot of the Church Times, the priest-poet Malcolm Guite, immediately gained the affections and loyalty of a discerning audience accustomed to literary excellence. His lucid, perceptive and imaginative musings follow a similar pattern to the sonnets for which he is so renowned. In his own words, he treats these 500 word essays 'a little in the spirit of the sonnet, with a sense of development, of a 'turn' or volta part way through, and a sense that the end revisits and re-reads the opening'. These draw together everyday events and encounters, landscape, journeys, poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred, and fuses them to create richly satisfying portraits of the familiar that at the same time opens a doorway in to a new and enchanted world.

Free - Coming of Age at the End of History (Paperback): Lea Ypi Free - Coming of Age at the End of History (Paperback)
Lea Ypi
R337 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books 'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime' Luke Harding, Observer 'We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right' Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. There was community and hope. Then, in December 1990, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. As one generation's aspirations became another's disillusionment, and as her own family's secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what freedom really meant. Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history. THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, DAILY MAIL, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR

James Joyce (Hardcover, illustrated edition): David Pritchard James Joyce (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
David Pritchard
R154 Discovery Miles 1 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ross Calvin Hardcover (Hardcover): Ron Hamm Ross Calvin Hardcover (Hardcover)
Ron Hamm
R737 R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Egoists - A Book of Superman (Hardcover): James Huneker Egoists - A Book of Superman (Hardcover)
James Huneker; Foreword by F Guzzardi
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wild Things - The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult (Paperback): Bruce Handy Wild Things - The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult (Paperback)
Bruce Handy
R469 R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful-and "consistently intelligent and funny" (The New York Times Book Review)-ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father of two) Bruce Handy. The dour New England Primer, thought to be the first American children's book, was first published in Boston in 1690. Offering children gems of advice such as "Strive to learn" and "Be not a dunce," it was no fun at all. So how did we get from there to "Let the wild rumpus start"? And now that we're living in a golden age of children's literature, what can adults get out of reading Where the Wild Things Are and Goodnight Moon, or Charlotte's Web and Little House on the Prairie? A "delightful excursion" (The Wall Street Journal), Wild Things revisits the classics of every American childhood, from fairy tales to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and explores the back stories of their creators, using context and biography to understand how some of the most insightful, creative, and witty authors and illustrators of their times created their often deeply personal masterpieces. Along the way, Handy learns what The Cat in the Hat says about anarchy and absentee parenting, which themes are shared by The Runaway Bunny and Portnoy's Complaint, and why Ramona Quimby is as true an American icon as Tom Sawyer or Jay Gatsby. It's a profound, eye-opening experience to re-encounter books that you once treasured decades ago. A clear-eyed love letter to the greatest children's books and authors from Louisa May Alcott and L. Frank Baum to Eric Carle, Dr. Seuss, Mildred D. Taylor, and E.B. White, Wild Things is "a spirited, perceptive, and just outright funny account that will surely leave its readers with a new appreciation for childhood favorites" (Publishers Weekly).

Word Up - The Life of Amanda Gorman (Hardcover): Marc Shapiro Word Up - The Life of Amanda Gorman (Hardcover)
Marc Shapiro
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Hardcover): Louisa May Alcott, Ednah D. Cheney Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Hardcover)
Louisa May Alcott, Ednah D. Cheney
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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